ComingSoon.net has an exclusive Time Warp documentary clip featuring Pam Grier (Coffy, Jackie Brown) and Fred Williamson (Black Caesar) for director Danny Wolf’s upcoming Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time: Volume 1 Midnight Madness, the first part of a three-part volume exploring the greatest cult classics of all time and the birth of the midnight movie. You can check out the clip in the player below!
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The three-part documentary begins with Midnight Madness, which will dive into the cult genre with The Rocky Horror Picture Show to The Big Lebowski and everything in between, begins the trilogy’s celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time by discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
The first volume will be hosted by Joe Dante (Gremlins), John Waters (Pink Flamingos), Ileana Douglas (Six Feet Under) and Kevin Pollak (Better Things) with interviews spread throughout the film from Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski), Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Rob Reiner (This is Spinal Tap), Barry Bostwick (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Michael McKean (Better Call Saul), John Turturro (The Jesus Rolls), Gary Busey (Predator 2), Jeff Goldblum (Thor: Ragnarok), Fran Drescher (Indebted), Penelope Spheeris (Wayne’s World) and Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show).
The second part of the documentary trilogy, Horror and Sci-Fi, will see the greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time studied in vivid detail, including groundbreaking classics like Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and sci-fi gems such as Blade Runner and A Clockwork Orange. The guest stars for the second volume, which is set to premiere in May, include Goldblum, Sean Young (Stripes), Joe Morton (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange), Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Roger Corman, John Sayles (Lone Star), Mary Woronov (Charlie’s Angels), Ed Neal (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses).
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The finale of the documentary series, Comedy Camp, will premiere in June and will dig deep into what makes us laugh over and over again with cult comedies and campy classics including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Office Space, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Showgirls. Guest interviews include Gina Gershon (Riverdale), John Cleese (Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life), Ron Livingston (The Conjuring), Jim Gaffigan (The Jim Gaffigan Show), Fred Willard (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), David Cross (Kung Fu Panda), Woronov, McKean, Kevin Smith (Jay & Silent Bob Reboot), Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Mike Judge (Silicon Valley), Peter Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber) and John Cameron Mitchell (Shrill).
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time: Volume 1 Midnight Madness is set to debut on digital platforms and video on demand from Quiver Distribution on April 21. Volume 2: Horror and Sci-Fi will debut on May 19, 2020, with Volume 3: Comedy and Camp, launching on June 23, 2020.
